On 7/23/20 3:51 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
"my Fedora32 computer" is this one, WS1. The external drive is presently connected via USB to ws1. I also have a Fedora 31 computer WS2 on the same LAN. I would like ws2 to have access to that external drive also. Presently that would require moving the USB plug which can be done obviously but is quite inconvenient./I assume if the Mybook had been a different model with an ethernet port it would work just as it does now and I hoped that might be possible with an adapter but it appears the adapter would need to be powered, the one I have is not./
A USB external drive is a USB device, not a USB host. You can't connect a USB ethernet adaptor to it. You can get smarter ones that have ethernet ports, but they are a lot more expensive.
Is there some reason you don't want to use nfs? That's the easiest typical way to share the drive. Or as someone else mentioned, depending on how you want to use it, sshfs could be even easier.
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